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Suzanne Barnett delivered a paper for the Roundtable on Keats’s Afterlives at the Keats Symposium, “The Emergence of Keats as a Poet,” hosted by Fordham University on October 7, 2017. Her paper addressed affinities between Keats and musical groups from the 1980s, such as Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants. Here she discusses Keats’s influence on contemporary music and why he attracts some genres while others reject the Keatsian aesthetic. Why do you think Keats was so amenable to 80s new wave culture, and not other genres or musical trends like “grunge” (which started in the mid- to late-eighties and shared its own set of stars who died prematurely)? My initial reaction to this question was something like an audible “bleargh” because I did a good job of avoiding grunge the first time around, but I’ll bite: grunge’s primary aesthetic was, I think we can all agree, a self-conscious resistance to having a definable aesthetic, a raw realism that inevita . . .

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